Hello!This week was quite a smorgasboard of music with new releases from three different artists!Today's show had the usual wild mix of genres - some fun fiddle music from Sketch, bagpipe music from Niteworks and the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, and classics from Pilot and Runrig. Read below to hear about the exciting new releases!

New Music

Today we have new music from SAINT PHNX, Nina Nesbitt and The Tesla Coils. From SAINT PHNX there's Deadmen/Death of Me - two songs from their upcoming album.

Nina Nesbitt's new release is Colder - the last single release before her full debut album. 'The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change' will come out at the end of February and we have six songs released so far. If you want to listen to them all, they're handily together in an EP, which was released with Colder yesterday. Nina will also be coming to DC shortly after the release of her album, playing at the Union Stage on March 1.

The last new release we have this week comes from my hometown! This is the first song to come from 'The Tesla Coils' who describe themselves as "'Slammin' together the Worst Offcuts of Punk, Metal, Country and Spoken word". You can find 'Apes Go Wild' over on Bandcamp.

Happy Thanksgiving!After feasting on turkey and stuffing during the week, you'll surely be ready for a Full Scottish Breakfast, right?Today we heard some Scottish Folk music by Emily Smith and Gary Innes, a wonderful piece combing spoken word and music by Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy, and then on to music by incredible Scottish female solo artists Annie Lennox, Annie, Booth, and Eddie Reader.If you enjoyed Skerryvore's Take My Hand, I definitely recommend watching the very wholesome and wonderful music video for this song!And don't forget if you want to see what Scottish music I'm listening to right now, you can check out the Full Scottish Breakfast Favorites playlist!

The first show of Full Scottish Breakfast has come and gone! I will be posting a blog post for every show including a recording, playlist, updates on Scottish music and other fun things! Without further ado, here was today's show!

This morning included a wide overview of several different genres included indie folk with Tide Lines and Skippinish, rock with XCERTS, Franz Ferdinand and Simple Minds, and 'bagrock' with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers.If you want to see new Scottish releases and old favo(u)rites that I'm listening to right now, you can check out the Full Scottish Breakfast Favorites playlist!

Thank you for checking out the website for Full Scottish Breakfast! I'll be bringing you all of your favorite Scottish music every Saturday morning at 9am on WMUC digital starting this week. You can listen in online at wmuc.umd.edu.

Every week I'll post playlists and a recording of the show to this website and I'll also have all of the latest news on new Scottish releases, US tours and more. Hit subscribe at the top of the page if you want to get weekly updates on what's happening in Scottish music.

If you have any questions, you can email radio@craigthorburn.com and I hope you can join me on my first show on November 17th!

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My name is Craig and I am the presenter of 'Full Scottish Breakfast' on WMUC-FM (88.1FM in the College Park area) every Friday at 5pm. As a native of Scotland I am excited to bring you a new and eclectic mix of Scottish music.